Short:    Purges binary data from MIME spool files
Author:   simon@studio.woden.com (Simon N Goodwin)
Uploader: simon@studio.woden.com (Simon N Goodwin)
Version:  1.1
Type:     comm/mail
Replaces: comm/mail/OctetPurger.lha

Freeware utility to scan a MIME-encoded mail file and
remove octet-binary encoded chunks - which are large and
generally not worth archiving with the message texts.

Updated documentation and HiSoft BASIC source code are
included.

I wrote this because I got sick of going through export
files generated by YAM, on a monthly basis, ripping out
all the binary sections by hand. YAM 2 will hopefully do
this automatically, but until then... 

REQUIREMENTS

ASL.library
MIME mail software - tested with output from YAM 1.3
HiSoft BASIC - if you wish to modify and recompile it.

HISTORY

Version 1.1 FIX always copies everything up to first
'--BOUNDARY' - the earlier version might not, due to a
difference of opinion between HiSoft and the author over
the correct interpretation of Boolean NOT (they seem to
think NOT 1 is TRUE, whereas I expected it to be FALSE).
And as I wrote the original HB parser, this change for
'Microsoft compatiblity ;-(' passed me by.


============================= Archive contents =============================

Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------  -------------
    1233     594 51.8% 05-Feb-98 14:42:58  OctetPurge.info
   26976   18019 33.2% 05-Feb-98 14:30:46 +OctetPurge
    3840    1835 52.2% 05-Feb-98 14:30:38 +OctetPurge.bas
     603     408 32.3% 05-Feb-98 14:42:58 +OctetPurge.bas.info
     338     127 62.4% 05-Feb-98 14:42:58 +OctetPurge.info
    1804    1063 41.0% 05-Feb-98 14:48:54 +OctetPurge.text
     761     670 11.9% 05-Feb-98 14:48:54 +OctetPurge.text.info
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
   35555   22716 36.1% 06-Feb-98 01:55:12   7 files